Crossover: The characters from different superhero teams are appearing together. They also turned up in one issue of an almost completely forgotten Shadowhawk story, where Jim Valentino indulged himself in a scathing Take That! at those who worship the old school Silver Age approach to super-heroes. (Shadowhawk's own unexamined '90s Anti-Hero values wouldn't get a similar jab until Kurt Busiek got a hold of the character.) There was also a crossover in Big Bang Comics #35, pitting the Silver Age Marvel Ersatzes against BB's Silver Age DC Ersatzes.

Cut Short: The series has never been finished as initially intended. It was meant to be followed by an 80 page annual, in which the 1963 characters are catapulted forward 30 years to meet with the Dark Age characters of 1993.

Also, when the Voidoid is scanning the Fury in Issue #2, you'll notice that in one part, the name of a certain Superman character from the fifth dimension appears in one of the panels.

And in the final issue, when the heroes are transported into another world, panels from various other Image comics are seen in the background - including one of normalman... in reference to normalman having a Mystery, Inc cameo under similar circumstances.

Take That!: Not so much to early Marvel Comics, but the people behind them; especially poking to Stan Lee. In fact "Affable Al" is depicted as pretty much a completely horrible human being in every way, personal and professional.

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